Personalized life coaching grounded in depth, focus, and reflection.
Robin Allard, LMFT, 25+ years of clinical experience
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It often starts as a quiet craving for more clarity. You find yourself wanting more intention in your routines, more depth in your relationships, and a way of spending your time that feels like yours. You're looking for alignment, a life that feels steady, grounded, and connected.
Anchored Self Life Coaching is a partnership designed for thoughtful conversations about the patterns, habits, and narratives that exist in your days. This is a space to slow down the momentum of doing, reflect on what keeps repeating, and begin making choices from a place of self-trust.
What's Included
A good life coach does not hand you advice. The work is in the questions: active listening, reflective inquiry, and mindful curiosity that help you find your own answers. Together, we focus on:
Putting words to what matters in your life, your work, and your relationships.
Looking at the limiting beliefs, recurring patterns, and quiet ways we get in our own way.
Bringing awareness to your habits, your reactions, and your choices, so they stop running on autopilot.
Steady follow-through between sessions, designed around the rhythms of your life.
Your living, evolving plan. Updated regularly as you evolve.
Routines, gratitude, affirmations, and other practices woven into your plan.
Coaching is solution-focused. The work is rooted in your present and oriented toward what you want to build. Sessions help you set goals you can reach, work through what gets in the way, and step into the life you are building.
It is not therapy. There is no diagnosis, no treatment of mental-health conditions, no processing of past trauma. The two serve different needs.
Specialized Coaching Focus
Moving past the "stuck" feeling by building systems that work with your unique wiring.
Replace the noise of "not enough" with a steady, earned confidence in your own capability.
Deepen your internal foundation so your sense of worth isn't tied to your productivity or others' expectations.
Aligning your strengths, values, and energy so what's possible becomes what's lived.
A meaningful life is rarely built through urgency. It is built through intention, awareness, and the courage to move honestly.
Who This Is For
Is This For You?
You're capable, intelligent, and outwardly functioning well, but internally you question yourself constantly. You second guess your decisions, minimize your strengths, or feel like you are performing competence rather than fully trusting it.
You're successful on paper, but you feel like you're spinning your wheels inside a pattern you can't quite break. You keep returning to the same dynamics, habits, or internal conflicts even when part of you knows something needs to shift.
You are already self-aware and reflective, but you want support staying intentional with your choices, habits, boundaries, and direction as your life evolves.
You're tired of losing yourself inside relationships, expectations, obligations, or roles that slowly pull you away from your own center.
A Closing Thought
Coaching is not about creating a flawless life. It's about developing a steady internal compass. It's about becoming more aware, more decisive, and more connected to your own sense of direction.
Real change doesn't happen in a loud explosion. It happens quietly through the conversations, the boundaries, and the moments where you begin to trust yourself.
Client Reflections
I wasn't looking for therapy. I just needed to get my life more organized because I was juggling work, family, deadlines, and constantly procrastinating. Coaching with Robin helped me build routines that I could actually stick to without making me feel judged or micromanaged. She's really easy to talk to and always seems to have some creative idea or perspective that helps things click. Things just feel a lot less chaotic now.
I had already done years of therapy and wasn't looking for that anymore. I wanted someone thoughtful to reflect with, keep me accountable, help me sort through my ideas, and honestly just have a space that felt grounding every week. Coaching with Robin has become one of my favorite forms of self care. She's incredibly easy to talk to, genuine, creative, and never judgmental. It feels supportive without feeling clinical, and somehow both calming and motivating at the same time. Honestly, worth every penny.
I came into coaching feeling pretty unfulfilled with my life, even though from the outside things looked fine. I was hard on myself constantly and felt like I had lost a sense of excitement, creativity, and momentum. Coaching with Robin helped me reconnect with parts of myself I had honestly stopped paying attention to. She has a way of offering perspectives I never would have arrived at on my own, but somehow everything connects and makes sense. I leave coaching sessions feeling clearer, lighter, and more excited about where my life is headed.
As someone in a high pressure executive role, I had gotten to the point where work consumed everything and I had almost no time or energy left for myself. I was looking for someone who could help me create a realistic wellness plan without making it feel rigid or performative. Robin's background stood out to me because she brings together emotional insight, coaching, mindfulness, and holistic wellness in a way that actually feels connected and practical.
She's incredibly resourceful, thoughtful, and easy to talk with. The strategies and routines we've built are personalized to my real life, not some generic template. I feel more balanced, more intentional, and far less burned out than when I started.
I had done therapy before and wasn't really looking for therapy again. I wanted connection, reflection, accountability, and someone I could genuinely talk to while moving through different chapters of my life and travels. I spoke with a few coaches before finding Robin, and she immediately stood out. She's incredibly easy to talk to, deeply insightful, creative, and you can feel how much she genuinely loves this work.
Coaching with her has become part of my regular self care routine no matter where I am in the world. I always leave coaching sessions feeling more grounded, inspired, and connected to myself again. Finding her honestly felt like such a gift.
After spending most of my life taking care of everyone else, I reached a point where my children were grown, my life looked completely different, and I realized I did not really know what brought me joy anymore. Coaching with Robin gave me space to reconnect with myself in a way I honestly had not done in decades.
She helped me start paying attention to what lights me up, what I want this next chapter of life to look like, and how to take real steps toward it. Our coaching conversations have helped me feel more hopeful, more confident, and more excited about my life again. I feel like I am finally building a relationship with myself instead of just taking care of everyone around me.
I wasn't looking for therapy, but life coaching sounded kind of bougie in the best way, and honestly it ended up helping me so much. My brain is all over the place sometimes and I needed help creating routines and structure that would actually work for me instead of against me.
Robin is super easy to talk to, really creative, and somehow understands my generation without being judgmental or trying too hard. She helped me come up with systems for my ADHD that actually fit my real life. Also, she's genuinely one of the coolest older people I've met. Definitely not something I could've afforded on my own yet, so thanks Mom and Dad, I know I'm lucky.
About
I'm Robin Allard, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Florida and Vermont with 25+ years of clinical experience. Through Anchored Self Life Coaching, I bring that depth of training to a non-clinical, growth-oriented coaching practice.
How we experience our lives often comes down to how we feel about ourselves: our sense of worth. The story you tell yourself gets reinforced over time, for better or for worse. The way you relate to yourself shapes the way you relate to everyone else.
You have an innate capacity to grow and change, to be resilient in the face of challenges, and to shift the patterns that no longer serve you. My work is to meet you where you are and to hold a steady, supportive space without judgment, where you can reflect, learn to be more mindful, and live with greater intention.
Logistics
60 minutes, virtual, by secure video. Anywhere you are.
$175 per session, self-pay. Insurance is not billed for coaching, and coaching is not reimbursable as healthcare under any plan.
It begins with a free 20–30 minute conversation. We see if coaching is the right fit for what you are looking for. If it is, you review and sign the agreement, and we set a starting cadence (often weekly). From there, we begin.
Free Resources
A couple of the handouts I use with clients, free to download. No email signup required.
A simple morning and evening grounding practice. Five minutes a day to start with intention and end with reflection.
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Six prompts for working through a recurring thought that feels heavy or fixed.
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Twelve questions to sit with. Read one a day. Let it unsettle and clarify in equal measure.
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A quarterly check-in. Closing one chapter, opening the next. Reflection prompts for looking back and looking forward.
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Looking for therapy instead of coaching? I am also a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 25+ years of experience, practicing as Making Connections Therapy and Consultation Services in Florida and Vermont.
For ethical reasons, a person cannot be both a coaching client and a therapy client of mine. These are separate engagements requiring separate agreements.
FAQ
Life coaching is a collaborative, reflective process that helps you gain clarity, notice patterns, make intentional choices, and move toward a life that feels more aligned with who you are and how you want to live.
Therapy focuses on diagnosing and treating mental health conditions and often works with trauma, symptoms, and emotional healing. Life coaching focuses on growth, self awareness, accountability, clarity, habits, mindset, and forward movement. Coaching is non clinical and future focused.
Coaching works well for thoughtful people who want more clarity, direction, consistency, confidence, or accountability in their personal or professional lives. Many clients feel accomplished on the outside but disconnected or unfulfilled in the life they are living.
People often come to coaching for:
Sessions are conversational, reflective, and collaborative. We explore patterns, beliefs, habits, reactions, goals, and the things that keep repeating in your life. Coaching may include reflection questions, mindset work, accountability, mindfulness practices, and practical strategies.
No. Good coaching is not about someone telling you how to live your life. The work is in helping you think more clearly, understand yourself more deeply, and make choices that feel intentional and sustainable.
Sometimes guidance, perspective, or practical strategies naturally become part of the conversation, but coaching is not about handing out answers. The goal is to help you strengthen your own clarity, judgment, and self trust.
Yes. Many clients seek coaching because they feel mentally overloaded, scattered, inconsistent, or stuck in cycles of avoidance and overwhelm. Coaching can help create structure, awareness, accountability, and systems that work with your brain instead of against it.
Yes. While coaching is not therapy, your privacy and trust matter deeply. Sessions are held in a professional, respectful, and confidential environment.
Sessions are currently held virtually by secure video, which allows flexibility and accessibility no matter where you are located.
Sessions are 60 minutes.
Life coaching sessions are $175 per session and are self pay.
No. Life coaching is not medical or mental health treatment and is not covered by insurance.
Yes. Many people work with both a therapist and a life coach at the same time because the roles serve different purposes. Coaching can support clarity, accountability, structure, intentional habits, and forward movement while therapy focuses on emotional healing and mental health treatment.
Because I am also a licensed marriage and family therapist, I keep those roles ethically separate. I cannot act as both your therapist and your life coach at the same time. During a consultation, we can determine which approach best fits your needs.
You can think of coaching in a similar way to working with a health and wellness coach or a personal trainer. The focus is on support, insight, structure, growth, and helping you move toward the life you want to build.
That is completely okay. We can talk through what you are looking for during a consultation and determine which service fits best. If someone is experiencing active suicidal thoughts, severe mental health symptoms, or is in crisis, coaching would not be appropriate and therapy or emergency mental health support would be the appropriate level of care.
Yes. I offer a free 20 to 30 minute conversation to see whether the coaching relationship feels like a good fit.
My coaching approach blends over 25 years of clinical experience with thoughtful, personalized support that goes far beyond generic advice or one size fits all programs.
The work is tailored to you. Your patterns, goals, strengths, challenges, relationships, lifestyle, and way of thinking all shape the process. I create individualized strategies, reflective exercises, resources, and practical tools that evolve as your needs evolve.
Clients often appreciate the depth of the work, the quality of the resources, and the balance between insight and action. Sessions are grounded, collaborative, honest, and designed to help you create meaningful change in a way that feels sustainable and aligned with your real life.
What Happens Next
Contact
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